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Title: You can only use one decoy.. Which do you pick? Hen, jake?
Post by: Ridgerunner7 on April 17, 2012, 07:17:05 PM

Did a search and didn't find much. If you could only use one... Which would it be? Breeder hen? Feeding? Alert? Jake?

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Post by: dirt road ninja on April 17, 2012, 07:32:44 PM

If I only had one it would be a jake. A close second would be a feeder hen.

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Post by: Lon0121 on April 17, 2012, 08:51:45 PM

Dont matter what position the hens in..they come regardless. I have set jakes out and have had big gobblers stay away from them. In my opinion i use hen

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Post by: bigdan29299 on April 18, 2012, 09:28:59 AM

Hen would be my choice.

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Post by: MiamiE on April 18, 2012, 09:52:40 AM

Hen for sure. These Osceola's are afraid of their own shadow!

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Post by: gtrjames on April 18, 2012, 10:23:51 PM

feeding hen...I've had jakes work great and have seen gobblers shy away especially if the jake has too much red on his head...if it is a subordinate gobbler, the sight of a red head can remind him of the boss bird that whips him everytime he wants to.

Title: Re: You can only use one decoy.. Which do you pick? Hen, jake?
Post by: HunterMan on April 19, 2012, 11:00:32 AM

Hen

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Post by: dpittman on April 19, 2012, 08:30:21 PM

I like the Jake-Mobile with real fan. The head is mostly white on mine.

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Post by: Garrett Trentham on April 19, 2012, 10:51:14 PM

I would say a submissive / alert hen, not one that sits on the ground though. Something on a stake that you can put 1 ft off the ground in case the grass is high.

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Post by: RC_STRUT on April 20, 2012, 01:57:23 PM

jake.

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Post by: Borat on April 20, 2012, 02:51:52 PM

DSD Jake

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Post by: Spring_Woods on April 20, 2012, 03:27:39 PM

I always liked a hen personally.

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Post by: loganman on April 20, 2012, 11:30:54 PM

For the last five years I have used an inflatable decoy called "Submissive Sally" that has a moulded plastic head that attaches. I put it low to the ground and it has worked great. I have bought four of them so far, one for each season because the gobbler gets so close I usually pop the decoy as well. The turkey I got this year was about twenty yards away from the decoy and I will be able to use it tomorrow.

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Post by: Hookhunter on April 21, 2012, 08:13:35 AM

Only own 1 or only use one? If I could only own one it would be the most realistic hen I could find (DSD, PHD) if I could only use 1 it would depend in the bird I was hunting. Hot, active birds or 1 big dominate bird strutting jake with real fan. Pretty much every other situation I would try the single hen. Just my thoughts on it. Oh yea ging in blind definitely hen.

Justin

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Post by: dpittman on April 21, 2012, 04:57:07 PM

Had two longbeards beat the crap out of my jake-mobile today.

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Post by: Big Willie on April 22, 2012, 10:02:17 AM

I have killed way more turkies with a single strutter than a single hen. They hang up sometimes on any decoy, but they run to the strutter alot. Never had one run to a single hen, they come to them but take thier time.

Title: Re: You can only use one decoy.. Which do you pick? Hen, jake?
Post by: Dan Mallia on April 22, 2012, 10:35:35 AM

Quote from: Lon0121 on April 17, 2012, 08:51:45 PM
Dont matter what position the hens in..they come regardless. I have set jakes out and have had big gobblers stay away from them. In my opinion i use hen

My thoughts exactly.

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